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I voted for Copenhagen. It's been a constant skipper for me.
Jeff
June 21, 2003 Toronto, ON: SkyDome
July 1, 2004 Toronto, ON: Molson Amphitheatre
November 26, 2004 Toronto, ON: Air Canada Centre
June 24, 2006 Toronto, ON: Historic Fort York
May 10, 2007 Indianapolis, IN: The Vogue
July 14, 2011 Edmonton, AB: Northlands Festival Site
June 30, 2012 Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON: The Commons at Butler's Barracks
January 23, 2013 Edmonton, AB: Rexall Place
July 28, 2016 Edmonton, AB: Rexall Place
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I am in complete agreement with all of you. You're Everywhere is a gem.
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If You're Everywhere gets voted off this early I am going to learn how to hack and then take this stupid site down! :nooooo :censored :nooooo
I voted Copenhagen again this round.
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I am resigned at this point to the ridiculously-early exit of The Heart of the Melt and One Night in Copenhagen, even though I haven't even seen anybody even talking about Nashville and Are We Family, which are to me far and away the weak sisters of the strong lot that remain.
Anyone that is thinking of casting a tipping point ballot to eliminate You're Everywhere, please stop. Stop now. Call me, text me, fax me -- let's get you down from this ledge. Let's get you in from the cold.
You're Everywhere is meant for the Final Four and ultimately the final face-off with Josephine after we decide that Vaccination Scar is too short and missing a chorus at the end and Gus is too repetitive.
And sidebar: fun drinking game -- Team "A" drinks on "Goodnight"; Team "B" drinks on "Josephine". The outro will destroy you.
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You’re Everywhere is a kickass rocker. I love it. The rawness. The urgency.
I also like Heart of the Melt. To me, that’s a way better song than Gus.
I also like Heaven. This may be colored by me being a huge hockey fan who felt awful about Dan Snyder. That said, lines about “glue guys” and “newly laid sod” are pretty darn poignant. It’s an upbeat, uptempo rocker. Right up my alley.
To me the duds on this album are Summer and Gus. I dig the rest.
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I, too, am surprised by the votes for You’re Everywhere. There are about a half dozen other tracks left here that I’d vote before this song. I love the chorus. The energy and emotion when Gord reels his Irish in gets me every time. And the harmony with Paul on “...straight lines and shadowwws” is straight up awesome.
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I like the idea of Heaven Is A Better Place, but the execution does nothing for me. I don't like the staccato vocal delivery and the drums feel rushed. Plus the end zone thing is a pretty common sports analogy, not necessarily worthy of mention in a Hip song.
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Let's totally agree to strike the Everywhere votes from the record. That chord change into the chorus is undeniable. The timing of it is so punchy...a half second after Gord goes up an octave. I love when Gord uses his "urgent" singing voice, when he stretches it and lets it squeak and rattle. "When I REEL my Irish in."
Plus "democracy is how we all learn to sleep with ourselves" is such a great line.
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Agree the football analogy may be a bit out of place there.
But since I believe Marv Levy once came down on Thurman Thomas for this very thing after he whooped and acted up after his first NFL touchdown ("Never do that again, Thurman"), I'll give it a pass.
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I've noticed on more than one occasion that trading has been suspended on Newstrike, the HIP marijuana stock. Who decides when we suspend voting on you're everywhere? Can it be done promptly?
Serious question - if it was YER everywhere, would some fans love it more? Be honest. Hell, pretend it is "YER everywhere" if it will make you quit voting for my wife's favorite Hip song :lol:
And what the fuck do voters in this round have against telephone booths/payphones? Gord's signature album double feature finessed into IBE with a bit of subtlety. Youd never have voted garbage bag trees or superfarmers out in round 2!
My vote was for Mean streak. I swear, I swear it will continue to be there until it's voted off. No, I don't have anything against haywagons (or plows) another subtle Downie double feature on IBE - farm equipment.
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This poll is bewildering and upsetting. :mrgreen:
The cries of outrage over the rejection of Yer Everywhere are well-founded. It is baffling to watch a MAJOR Hip composition being cavalierly dismissed. But I'm also puzzled by the complete lack of love given to "Mean Streak," a wonderfully ominous dissection of attitudes to otherness - no doubt an oblique reference to the Islamophobia rampant after 9/11, in the shadow of which the entire album is placed, and perhaps also to the reception given to US troops marching over the deserts - that seems to me to play right into the Hip's classic strengths: Gord's invariably great low-register vocals, the ominous, unsettling vibe, the minor-major chordal dance, the great eerie middle eight. Is it a classic? No, but it's a rock-solid album cut, a very fine Hip track, that deserves better than to be thrown aside without comment.
"Heart of the Melt" I like, but I can, at least, see why it's losing (just as I could readily understand why people dislike "Summer," much as I find that song to be outrageous fun). It's closer to an entry in the heavy metal idiom than the blistering roots- or art-rock that are the Hip's trademark; Gord sounds weirdly like Geddy Lee on it (not exactly a singer I'd want to emulate); the melody lacks surprise; and the coda is thunderous chaos that - while I myself find it practically orgasmic - could be heard as dissonant. All I ask here is that we at least tip our hat to the fantastic "and then of course there's the dorsal fin..." section. Like the final verse/chorus of "Makeshift," that passage is about as exciting as anything in the Hip's catalogue.
Meanwhile, the good-but-not-great "Vaccination Scar" is practically untouched in this poll - which leads me to wonder (since it was the single) whether some respondents are replying to the poll based on their memories of a barely-listened-to album from years ago rather than really putting this thing on and listening to it with fresh ears. The album was largely dismissed and maligned at the time and the poll may be reflecting that, unfortunately.
